Improvement in glove-turning machines



affini? A u UNITED STATES PATENT ,OFFICEo FREDRIOK VANDERPOOL, OF MAYFIELD, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND JAMES E. WOOD, OF SAMEPLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN GLOVE-TURNING MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,111, dated December 30, 1873 appli-cation led November 15, 1873. i. I

which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l rep' ,resents a front view of my improved gloveturner, and Fig. 2 a vertical transverse section of the same on the line c c, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of my invention is to furnish a convenient glove-turning machine, by which all the fingers and the hand part,with the exception of the thumb, may be turned simultaneously in a rapid and easy manner. My invention consists of a stationary frame-with finger-tubes, over which the glove to be turned is placed. A spring-frame with hand-board and ngerrods slides in the stationary frame, and serves, by being pressed down on the iinger ends, to carry the glove and hand-part over it by one upward motion of the same.

In the drawing, A represents the stationary frame or standards, which are firmly screwed in `upright position to a counter or table. The movable frame B slides by its vertical rods a in standards A, which rods are laterally connected at their lower ends, and of such length that they can be operated by the foot like a treadle. The horizontal main piece A of frame A carries four upright tubes, C, which are socketed in suitable manner therein, corresponding in length to the fingers of the hand. Piece A is perforated for rods c, forming an additional guide to them, While it also serves, in connection with cross pins b and spiral springs d, to arrest the upward motion of frame B. The spiral springs d are placed on` rods a, between pins b, and the lower shoulder or bracket-shaped ends of standards A forcing frame B in upward direction as soon as re-` leased by the foot. The hand-board D is firmly attached by screws e to the upper ends of rods a, extending downward between them,

and having rods j, which are of such length 'that the finger-tubes C are reached by them the finger ends ot' the glove, `and retained thereon by the foot. The glove is then taken 1 .hold of at the wristpart and carried up till turned to the wrist. The frame B is then released, passing upward, while the glove is held stretched on the hand-board until the fingers are entirely out of the tubes. `The gloveis then taken oit the hand-board, the thumb placed on one of the tubes, the hand-board brought down, as before, and the glove is then turned entirely.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination, with spring sliding frame B, provided with the pendent rods f, of the frame A A A, having the tubes C corresponding in number and placed opposite to the rods f, to enable the glove t0 be turned in the mani ner described.

FREDRICK VANDERPOOL.

Vl-Iitnesses W. D. WoonwoRTn, COLLINS ODELL. 

